VP, Middle Office Controller, Global Treasury Controllership

The Global Treasury Controllership (GTC) team is part the Global Corporate Controllership Organization and is responsible for providing comprehensive Treasury support covering all Treasury transactions, including cash, debt, equity, derivative, and investments.

The GTC Middle Office team is responsible for providing critical and comprehensive Treasury support combining accounting, technology know-how, and treasury transaction knowledge and expertise.. The Middle Office literally sits in the Middle of the transaction lifecycle and is involved in virtually all facets of a transaction, including Transaction Advisory, Trade Capture, Confirmation, Settlements, Accounting and Reporting. The FX Controllers team is also part of the Middle Office team and maintains various aspects of the Treasury Management Suite of platforms.

The Vice President, Middle Office Controller is responsible for leading and developing 40+ colleagues based in NY, India and Mexico.

The role involves setting the operations strategy, driving process improvements, ensuring a robust control environment, enhancing capabilities, and simplifying/ transforming platforms to build appropriate scale. The team remit is focused on Operational advisory and excellence, Trade Support, including capture, confirmation, settlements, accounting and reporting for all Capital Markets, Over-the-counter and Foreign Exchange transactions, including FX Spots, FX Swaps and Forwards, Bonds, Commercial Paper, Retail CDs, Interest Rate Swaps, FX Spot and Forwards, Reverse Repos, Investments and Call Money transactions.

The VP also collaborates with a large group of stakeholders and customers in Treasury, Controllership, Technology, General Councils Office, Financial Planning & Analysis, Tax, etc. to support and provide superior customer service, lead value-creation initiatives and other ad-hoc projects, and drive seamless transaction execution.

Main Responsibilities:

• Being responsible for and leading daily core operations maintaining a culture and environment where processes, risks and controls are continually monitored, and potential risks escalated on a timely basis as well as acting as a senior point of escalation
• Lead a team responsible for:
• FX advisory, accounting, reporting, and crafting new analytics to deliverable analytical insights
• Identity and supervise global FX exposures, while advising on FX hedging strategy and execution
• Providing transaction advisory and readiness to the Treasury organization
• Collecting the Companys FX, debt, derivative, investments, and Intercompany loan transactions
• Confirm transactions with external/internal counterparties
• Provide trade settlement support to the Global Treasury Organization
• Accounting and various reporting support for FX, debt, derivatives, investments
• Leading the global organization to simplify, improve and measure processes by delivering enhancements to the control environment, and the customer journey with input to design techniques and digital automation
• Driving and supporting the delivery of strategic platform re-engineering initiatives, with conscious intent to standardize data flow, reducing manual touch points and aligning on prioritization for tech delivery
• Driving the implementation of initiatives to continuously improve STP rates and productivity, including the use of robotics, workflow and other innovative re-engineering techniques
• Help develop, support global coverage model, develop scorecard and performance metrics
• SOX controls optimization efforts related to owned processes and operational excellence through continuous improvement in execution, enhanced controls and intelligent process automation.
• Leads, motivates, and develops a team of professionals to accomplish goals while enhancing employee engagement, development, inclusion, and diversity
• Engaging with and leading our People. developing effective and diverse teams across a global footprint
• Coaching and mentoring our People. Ensuring effective one to one discussions. Providing direction, feedback, support, and encouragement for career development

• BA/BS Accounting degree or equivalent and 15+ years of professional experience
• Profession certification (ACCA, CMA, CPA) a plus
• Treasury Capital markets experience or relevant American Express Treasury experience
• Familiarity with hedge accounting elections (e.g., Net Investment Hedges, non-designated hedges, etc) a plus
• Proven people leadership experience leading a diverse and geographically dispersed team
• Experienced in developing positive relationships with team members, leaders, and business partners across geographies and time zones
• Strong will to win, a self-starter, strategic problem solver, and process improvement champion
• Solid understanding of debt, derivatives, and investment financial instruments
• Strong understanding of US GAAP accounting and regulatory reporting requirements for Treasury transactions
• Attention to detail with a dedication to maintaining and improving a strong control environment
• Strong communicator; able to synthesize and communicate complex topics clearly

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We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That’s why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

If the role you are applying for is designated as hybrid or onsite, you will be required to demonstrate that you have completed your primary COVID-19 vaccination series (i.e. 2 doses for Moderna/Pfizer and 1 dose for J&J), in order to work in or visit any of our offices. This requirement is subject to legally required accommodations.

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